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Education
Finding credible information about human trafficking can be hard. Our free online module is an evidence-based human trafficking training offering practical advice for healthcare providers.
Licensure Requirements
Sorting out licensure requirements for your profession can be difficult. The changing landscape of human trafficking requirements makes that job even harder. Learn more about how states are addressing human trafficking through licensure requirements.
Policies & Procedures
Healthcare policies and procedures are the roadmaps of healthcare systems. They often ignore human trafficking. Our sample policies and procedures use the best available evidence and practical experience to help your institution.
The Human Trafficking Lab
As a part of the Collaborative, The Human Trafficking Lab is a social innovation space where multidisciplinary student teams use design thinking to research, incubate, and build replicable, scalable, and disruptive solutions to reduce vulnerability to trafficking.
About Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is compelled service. It occurs when a person is compelled into service for profit. It has two major forms in the United States: labor or sex. Human trafficking has been found in every state in the nation.
Common misconception:
Only undocumented foreign nationals get trafficked in the United States.
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Human trafficking only happens in illegal or underground industries.
Learn MoreCommon misconception:
If the trafficked person consented to be in their initial situation, then it cannot be human trafficking.
Learn MoreAbout the University of Michigan Human Trafficking Collaborative
The University of Michigan Human Trafficking Collaborative is a partnership between the University of Michigan Law School Human Trafficking Clinic and the University of Michigan School of Nursing to educate the public, including healthcare providers and advocates, about human trafficking.
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Research
Research can help us uncover the truth about human trafficking. Learn more.
Supporting Survivors
If you are in the United States and you need help or you want to learn more about human trafficking, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or Text “HELP” or “INFO” to 233733.
News & Press
Biographic Information for Members of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking
Biographic Information for Members of the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking
Unmasking Human Trafficking
University of Michigan School of Nursing and University of Michigan Law School collaboration to address human trafficking, “It is the first collaboration of its kind in the country, bringing together the unique and disparate skill sets of nursing and law.”
Victims and villains: Anti-trafficking movement urged to tackle racial bias
And Black victims discovered by police on anti-trafficking raids are routinely treated with suspicion, said Bridgette Carr, director of the University of Michigan Law School’s Human Trafficking Clinic, which gives free legal support to victims.